Alexander Ironside Littlejohn Macdiarmid was a general surgeon at the Cook Hospital, Gisborne, New Zealand. Born on 25 January 1911 in Hawara he was the son of James Breadalbane Macdiarmid, also a surgeon and a fellow of the Edinburgh college. He was educated at King’s College in Auckland and then a

George Watts was a general surgeon at Birmingham General Hospital. He was born on 20 February 1923 in Walsall, Staffordshire, the son of George Watts, a tax inspector, and Helen Watts. He attended King Edward’s Grammar School Birmingham, where he was awarded a foundation scholarship, and then he was

George Desmond Cribb was born on 14 August 1917 at Northwood, son of a dental surgeon, and educated at Sherborne and University College Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1939. At the beginning of the second world war he joined the RAMC. Taken prisoner at Dunkirk, he was medic

John Armstrong was born on 20 March 1911 in Monmouth, where his father, Arthur Keith Armstrong, was a general practitioner; his great-grandfather John Armstrong was a member of the College and his mother was Louise Lilly Macman, the daughter of a solicitor. He was educated at Highgate School and

Prabhat Ranjan Das Gupta was a surgeon in Kolkata, India. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and died on 2 October 1990.

Albert Tompkin was born on 14 March 1921 in Nottingham, the son of Albert, an analytical chemist and his wife, Lucy, née Wilson, who was a teacher. He went to Nottingham High School and long before he left he had made up his mind to be a surgeon. In 1937 while still only sixteen years of age he was

Benjamin John Fowler was born in 1917 in Peterborough where he attended the King's School before entering Guy's Hospital to qualify in 1941. He was called up for Army service, working as a general duties medical officer with some experience in surgery. While in North Africa he was created Chevalier

John Edward Price was born in London in 1920. He trained at King's College Hospital during the war. Afterwards he worked as a consultant surgeon to the Ministry of Health in East Nigeria, and later for the National Iranian Oil Company. His last move was to Canada, where he was for a time on the surg

Owen Morris Jonathan was a consultant general surgeon at Glan Clwyd Hospital, north Wales. He was born in Bodedern, Anglesey on 25 July 1917, the son of Owen Arthur and Hanna Ester Jonathan. His mother's family were Anglesey farmers, but he was brought up in Tywyn, Merionethshire, where his father w

Charles Robert McDonald Redwood was born in Bangalore, India, on 5 April 1919 the son of Alfred McDonald Redwood, a missionary. His early education was at Breeks School, Ootacamund, and he entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School shortly before the outbreak of war. On qualifying in 1943 he immediat

Colin Graham-Stewart qualified at St Thomas's Hospital with the conjoint, only taking the London MB long after the war. He did his surgical training at Essex County Hospital, Colchester, and in Portsmouth, and was resident assistant surgeon at St Thomas's. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Harr

William Edward John Bennett was a general surgeon in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Margate, Kent, on 12 February 1921, the second child and first son of William Robert Bennett, an inspector of taxes, and Elizabeth Mary Bennett née Knuckey, a civil servant and the daughter of